The airline has formally given up its certificates to function business flights within the UK.
The airline has cancelled all flights (Picture: Getty)
An airline has cancelled all flights with fast impact after plunging into liquidation. It has been confirmed the airline will return its fleet of planes and quit its UK Air Operator’s Certificates (AOC).
Ascend Airways, which was based in 2004 however operated beneath its present identify for simply three years, operated flights from Gatwick Airport and Stansted Airport. As a “wet-lease” provider, the airline provided plane to carriers together with Oman Air, Air Sierra Leone and TUI Airways. Nevertheless, it lately plunged into liquidation, ceasing all operations and cancelling flights.
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As reported by Metro, Ascend Airways has given up its UK Air Operator’s Certificates (AOC), a doc that each airline wants to be able to function business flights within the UK. In accordance with firm insiders, an electronic mail was despatched to employees which cited financial pressures, together with the impression of the battle in Iran on the jet gas disaster, for the shutdown.
Workers have been then advised that the airline would stop operations after their ultimate flight with Oman Air had landed from Muscat at Stansted Airport on Thursday (April 30).
Nevertheless, it has been confirmed the airline’s Malaysian arm will stay unaffected. The airline stated in a LinkedIn put up: “Ascend Airways Malaysia stays operationally steady, continues to fulfill all its contractual obligations and is progressing on-track with communicated growth plans.”
A supply beforehand stated: “It’s gone bust at the moment, we bought the information this afternoon. We’ve all been given the letters that it’s all going into liquidation.”
They added: “It’s to do with the financial system, we couldn’t get contracts, the UK is much more costly than Europe. The gas scenario had a large impact on it as properly.”
The scenario has left employees involved about their wages, with one saying: “We’re not going to receives a commission for Might and we’ve to undergo the liquidators. You would stand up to £750 every week however we’re not going to get the complete quantity we’re owed.”
Ascend Airways initially launched in 2004 beneath Synergy Aviation earlier than rebranding in 2023. On the time of its collapse, it operated a fleet of 1 Boeing 737-800 and 6 Boeing 737 MAX 8 plane.
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